No further details on Belfast prison fire

15 November 2015 - 21:06
By TMG Digital Reporters

No further details have been released about a fire at the Belfast Correctional Centre in Mpumalanga on Saturday that claimed the lives of two inmates and left six others injured. According to Department of correctional services spokesperson Manelisi Wolela‚ preliminary investigations indicate that the fire was started in the early hours of the morning in a cell occupied by eight prisoners but was extinguished before it could spread to other cells.

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